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Showing Original Post only (View all)Here I am in a new city, embarking on trying to find an Obamacare doctor. [View all]
It's an HMO (Blue Cross sells only HMOs here).
I haven't checked before now because it's so stressful and upsetting, as the "we don't take that" responses pile up. I went through this last year. I spent hours and called over 20 doctors before I found one who would take my insurance (different city...before I moved). The provider list that BC provided (last year, anyway) was worthless. I think it was just any dr. who would take SOME Blue Cross policy, but not necessarily mine. And they sure didn't take mine. (I did finally find 2...one was 1 1/2 hrs away, and the other was close, but only to see a nurse; but I was moving by then, so too late.)
So now I embark on this again. I've called my first one. Response: She'll have to ask if they take my ins. & will call me back. She thinks they only take PPOs, and not sure about the Obamacare part.
I've already decided that I'm going to do w/o insurance altogether next year. I've been buying this stuff since 2014 and haven't been able to get a physical exam or anything. I did get a dog bite treated last year at an Urgent Care place (that was United Healthcare, tho...a better company; but they quit selling Obamacare in the state, so I had to go back to Blue Cross).
Wish me luck on the return call tomorrow from that dr. office. Even if they take me, it will only be the nurse. The dr. won't take it, she said. The cost of this insurance? Over $980/month. It's regarded pretty much like Medicaid, it seems, in my area. This process always gets me upset.